Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i was very upset for a while, when the r system died specially after leica directly told me hang on and u will have a new body. anyway i sold all of my r system including dmr/ 180 apo, 90/20 50 1.4, 35-70/2.8.... probably some the best lenses i had or will ever own. for leica to be in the 35mm business, meant competing with canon/nikon for technology which dont' work and then trying to justify selling lenses @ 7k a pop. now in the MF world, their pricing is right and competing is much easier. tested or untested they are in, it will be interesting to see what happens when canon and nikon roll out 40meg cameras. this will also be very challenging for canon/nikon, since most of their lenses need to be upgraded to deliver. for now a continuous flux of changes is ahead of us. enjoy the ride!! On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>wrote: > I agree Mehrdad. To -not- continue the R line was unfortunate for we users > but a logical business decision, I don't think the R line ever made any > profit and the cost of R&D for a new R would probably have been exactly the > same as the S2 has been with no chance of being able to charge an > economically viable price for it. > Whether there is a big enough market for it, only time will tell, but it > would not surprise me to learn that it outsells the R, on an annual sales > basis. > In the car business all the profit comes from the more expensive models > since the production costs vary little and the retail a lot! > FD > > On 18 May, 2011, at 06:31, mehrdad wrote: > > > frank, i actually think the s2 idea was/is very good. much easier to > compete > > in the medium format world and they can charge the kind of money to make > > money. so far s2 has been a run a way success the only caveat being they > > can't make enough bodies and lenses > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at > > earthlink.net > >wrote: > > > >> Stop smoking that stuff... it is making you crazy...... > >> > >> They will go broke making it for a tiny number of amateur users or they > >> will > >> discontinue it and piss off their actual users. > >> > >> Either way they will lose....waste of time, opportunity, and money.. > >> > >> Just like the S1. > >> > >> My opinion, YMMV > >> > >> Frank Filippone > >> Red735i at earthlink.net > >> > >> ....S system I think its brilliant and will prove itself over time and > be > >> one of the many choices Leica has made in the past decade which will > make > >> it one of the top camera companies again. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------- > > regards, mehrdad > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad